Formatting a Research PaperLESSON 10

Plagiarism

Illegal use of someone’s work (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014)

Citations

Word 2013 has a feature that allows the user to insert correctly formatted citations Citation: Excerpt from the source of

information (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014) Can be deleted without deleting the source

Source: the place in which you retrieved your information from

Works Cited/Bibliography

Works Cited: lists all of the sources used within a document

Captions

A line of text that describes an object (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014)

Header/Footers

Header: Content that appears on the top of the page (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014)

Footer: Content that appears on the bottom of the page (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014)

Uses of Footnotes & Endnotes

Footnotes and endnotes are used in printed documents to explain, comment on, or provide references for text in a document

Footnotes often used for detailed comments and endnotes for citation of sources

What’s the difference?

Footnotes are inserted at the bottom (or “foot”) of the page in which the reference occurs

Endnotes are inserted at the end of the document on a separate page

Footnotes and endnotes

MLA Style Footnote:Single SpacedHanging Indent

MLA Style Endnote:Double SpacedNo hanging indent

What is TOC?

Table of Contents is a list of the parts of a book or document organized in the order in which the parts appear by page number

Appears at the beginning of the document Tab Leaders: symbols that appear in a table

of contents between a topic and the corresponding page numbers (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014)

TOC

Easiest way to create TOCs in Word 2013 is by using the built-in heading stylesFor example, Heading 1, Heading 2, and

Heading 3 — to the text that you want to include in the table of contents

Word searches for those headings and then automatically inserts the table of contents into your document

Manual vs. Automatic

Manual Table of Contents:Allows the user to create and

customize a table of contentsAutomatic Table of Contents:

Allows the user to insert a pre-formatted table of contents

Hyperlinks

Usually underlined in blueChanges to purple once clicked

Links to a file, website, email, or place in the documentLinks to email will open Microsoft Outlook

Can be applied to text or pictures

Hyperlinks

Keyboard Shortcut: Ctrl + K

Hyperlink

To follow a hyperlink, move your mouse over the link, press the control key and click on the link

To remove a hyperlink, right click and go to Remove Hyperlink on the shortcut menu

Bookmark

Creates a bookmark (similar to favorites in Internet Explorer)

Allows you to come back to a particular section of words in the future

Insert Ribbon > Links Group > Bookmark

Must begin with a letter

Source

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2014). Microsoft Official Academic Course Microsoft Word 2013, Exam 77-418.